In this research, petrographic and geochemical (major and trace elements) characteristics of siliciclastic rocks of the Mozduran Formation in the eastern Kopet-Dagh Basin have been carried out in order to reveal their provenance such as source area paleoweathering, parent rock composition and tectonic setting. Mozduran Formation is mainly composed of limestone and dolomite, with minor amounts o...

Granulometric, mineralogical and morphological investigation of the sea-bottom sediments in the Grgur Channel has revealed fi ve sediment types, the most frequent of which are muds containing some amount of coarse fractions (sand and gravel). The coarsest fractions are predominantly composed of recent shell fragments. Unexpected well rounded carbonate gravel was found SE of Prvić Island in 83 m...

In this study, the concentrations of heavy metals (Ca, Zn, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni) in thesediment of Shavoor River in Khuzestan Province in Iran has been investigated. After the library studies and field studies, six samples of water and sediment were taken from the river in order to evaluate heavy metal pollution in sediments. To determine the geochemical phases of metals in sediment samples the 5-ste...

In this study, the assemblage of calcareous nannofossils has been investigated in long and continuous deposits from a Kafaz section in Eastern Iran. A systematic study of calcareous nannofossils has indicated 39 nannofossils species. In order to the age determination of Kafaz's deposits, a revised zonation for the Eocene is used. Based on it, the Early-Middle Eocene deposits of Kafaz section is...

Anomalously saline waters in Ocean Drilling Program Holes 1127, 1129, 1130, 1131 and 1132, which penetrate southern Australian slope sediments, and isotopic analyses of large benthic foraminifera from southern Australian continental shelf sediments, indicate that Pleistocene–Holocene meso-haline salinity reflux is occurring along the southern Australian margin. Ongoing dolomite formation is obs...

sediment yield data, collected for most regions in iran has been insufficient and not so reliable and there is still not any sufficiently reliable methodology available for sediment yield assessment in the country as a whole. on the other hand, an attainment of reliable sediment yield data is a must and key requirement for the design of effective sediment management as well as control strategie...

Sedimentary microbial communities play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, oxidizing deposited organic and thus influencing type of buried from Earth's surface. The rate metabolism within sedimentary is often linked to lability amount deposited. Here we show that, pure culture, for sulfate-reducing bacteria (Desulfovibrio bizertensis) sulfate reduction function proportion clay minerals ...